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Published: 2017-09-26 10:11:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 2799; Favourites: 117; Downloads: 16
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A pair of juvenile Diplodocus having a little disagreement. They would have hatched out the size of a goose; these ones are the size of a goat or small donkey, so are still pretty limber and lightweight. I gave them a speculative coat of prickly, quill-like fuzz which provides a bit of insulation and irritates the mouth linings of small predators (not much use against big predators, sadly).Related content
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I think for some sauropodlets, we have scale impressions but very good speculative quill feathers!
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Cool to know - I looked around but couldn't find anything. AH well, this is just for fun
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We'll probably never know for sure, but I can buy the fuzz. Over the last month or so I've watched some local feral goose chicks turning into adult birds, and it's not too hard to imagine young birds and dinosaurs looking more like one another than adult birds and dinosaurs, as is the case with higher primates.
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It's something I fiigure is at least probable . . . who know?
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Hence the word "speculative".
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If they'd hatched out the size of geese, the shells would have been too thick to break.
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